The head of the EU Delegation, Vygaudas Ušackas, said that the EU has begun actively developing a wide range of measures to stimulate the implementation of the Minsk agreements on Ukraine. “The European Union is prepared to take further action if the situation worsens - the third element of the decisions taken by foreign ministers last week. As a result, work has begun to prepare any appropriate actions that may be taken by the EU to implement the Minsk agreements.

Power plant property is being auctioned for the second time The property of the Experimental Thermal Power Plant is being put up for auction for the second time, now buildings, land and equipment - 21 lots in total - are valued at 190 million rubles. The first attempt to sell assets for 293 million rubles. did not take place due to lack of applications. Experts believe that the ETES property will not be of interest to electric power companies, even given the price reduction.

According to Anton Tsvetkov, head of the Russian Public Chamber (PP) commission on security, the OP will study the actions of law enforcement agencies and store security after the death of a siege survivor at the police department, where she was taken from a St. Petersburg supermarket on suspicion of stealing butter. “We will carefully study the actions of the store security, and also find out exactly when the woman became ill and how quickly they called an ambulance.

Operators of the outdoor advertising market ask for help from the authorities The outdoor advertising market in Kazan is on the verge of survival. According to operators, the occupancy rate of advertising space has decreased to 10-40% since the beginning of the year. Yesterday they asked the city authorities to halve the rent for placing structures, which could reduce their costs by up to 15%. At the same time, the shortfall in city budget revenues may exceed 40 million rubles.

The population of the republic is overdue for 6.7 billion rubles in loan debt The overdue loan debt of the population of Buryatia, according to specialists from the All-Russian Popular Front project “For the Rights of Borrowers,” currently amounts to 6.7 billion rubles.

Serbia and Croatia reacted with restraint to the decision of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, which refused to recognize both countries as victims of genocide. Both countries accused each other of the deliberate destruction and forced relocation of representatives of their peoples. However, as political commentator for Kommersant FM Yuri Matsarsky found out, the countries of the former Yugoslavia still have grievances against each other.

At the end of 2014, the Khabarovsk branch of VTB24 increased the share of foreign currency deposits in the deposit portfolio from 18 to 37%. Branch manager Vladimir Selivanov told reporters about this on Thursday. According to Mr. Selivanov, this is due to the excitement caused by currency fluctuations at the end of 2014. In total, the volume of funds raised last year increased by 4.5% to 25.6 billion rubles, of which the volume of deposits from individuals amounted to 18 billion rubles.

The placement was carried out at 9.8 thousand rubles. per share The sale of approximately 1% of Magnit brought its main owner and CEO Sergei Galitsky almost 10 billion rubles. The placement took place at a 5% discount to the exchange value of the shares - 9.8 thousand rubles. a piece.

According to Maya Lomidze, executive director of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR), Turkey is considering introducing a special price for tours for Russian tourists. “Currently this issue is being worked out. Representatives of the Russian tourism industry made a proposal to introduce special prices.

Air carriers are asking the government for help. There was a split in the industry itself over this issue: Aeroflot and Sibir believe that companies should survive on their own. If there is no help, a series of bankruptcies cannot be avoided, but the largest market players will still survive, according to Kommersant FM interlocutors. Photo: Evgeny Pavlenko, Kommersant Russian airlines turned to the government for state support.

A verdict has been handed down in the case of an accident with a “Tiger” The Rostov garrison military court today sentenced Alexander Kondratyev, a private contract service of the GRU special forces, to five years in a penal colony: while driving a Tiger combat vehicle while intoxicated, he committed an accident in which two people died.

The dollar exchange rate on the Moscow Exchange by 14:25 Moscow time decreased by almost 2% compared to the closing level of the previous day and amounted to 66.68 rubles/$. The euro exchange rate decreased by 1.5% - to 76.25 rubles/€. Photo: Oleg Kharseev, Kommersant

Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia Devlet Alikhanov was arrested on suspicion of fraud Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia, former member of the Federation Council Devlet Alikhanov was arrested for two months by decision of the Petrozavodsk City Court. He is suspected of major fraud and illegal border crossing.

Francois Hollande and Angela Merkel will propose a Transnistrian scenario for resolving the conflict in Donbass. This became known to Interfax sources in the contact group. This could mean a freeze in hostilities. Kommersant Publishing House's own correspondent in Kyiv, Yanina Sokolovskaya, told the details to presenter Pyotr Kosenko on Kommersant FM. Photo: Christian Lutz/Pool, Reuters Earlier, the Kremlin confirmed the upcoming visit of the leaders of France and Germany to Moscow.

Citizens compared the Russian Federation with Germany and the USA As a Levada Center study showed, 49% of citizens are confident that Russia is a democratic state. Those who doubt this refer to the fact that “there is no democracy anywhere” or that our people “have not matured” for it. According to Russians, the situation with democracy is even worse in the United States.